Slingshot gives a peek at the Joyent Connector source

Joyent leaps into the Rails blogosphere spotlight with Slingshot, a simple way to run Rails apps as desktop applications. I could have certainly used it with the blainedavis.com installation, which ran the site on big ol’ touchscreens. To keep it snappy we ran the site locally using Instant Rails. It wasn’t difficult to setup, but certainly wasn’t compile-&-forget. Like many other commenters I am concerned about Slingshot protecting the app’s source, performance issues, and how it will compete with Adobe’s Apollo, but this is a wonderful, wonderful idea.

More importantly David Young gives a brief peek at the Joyent Connector source code while showing it off, the tease:

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